English-Thai Dictionary
galangal
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
GALANGA
n.A plant, species of the Maranta or Indian Arrow-Root, so called because the root is used to extract the virus communicated by poisoned arrows. This plant has thick, knotty, creeping roots, crowned with long, broad, arundinaceous leaves, with stalks half a yard high, terminated by bunches of monopetalous, ringent flowers.
GALANGAL
n.Zedoary, a species of Kaempferia. It has tuberous, thick, oblong, fleshy roots, crowned with oval close-sitting leaves, by pairs, without footstalks.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
GALANGA; GALANGAL
GALANGA; GALANGAL Ga *lan "ga, Ga *lan "gal, n.Etym: [OE. galingale, OF. galingal,garingal, F. galanga (cf. Sp. galanga ), prob. fr. Ar. khalanj. ]
Defn: The pungent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia (A. Galanga and A. officinarum ) and of the Kæmpferia Galanga ), -- all of the Ginger family.
New American Oxford Dictionary
galangal
ga lan gal |gəˈlaNGgəl ɡəˈlæŋɡəl |(also galingale |ˈgalinˌgāl |) ▶noun an Asian plant of the ginger family, the aromatic rhizome of which is widely used in cooking and herbal medicine. [Genera Alpinia and Kaempferia, family Zingiberaceae. ] ORIGIN Middle English galingale, via Old French from Arabic ḵalanjān, perhaps from Chinese gāoliángjiāng, from gāoliáng (the name of a district in Guangdong Province, China ) + jiāng ‘ginger. ’
Oxford Dictionary
galangal
galangal |ˈgal (ə )ŋgal |(also galingale ) ▶noun [ mass noun ] an Asian plant of the ginger family, the aromatic rhizome of which is widely used in cookery and herbal medicine. ●Genera Alpinia and Kaempferia, family Zingiberaceae. ORIGIN Middle English galingale, via Old French from Arabic ḵalanjān, perhaps from Chinese gāoliángjiāng, from gāoliáng (the name of a district in Guangdong Province, China ) + jiāng ‘ginger ’.
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